21 Facts About Constantin Pecqueur

Charles Constantin Pecqueur was a French economist, socialist theoretician and politician.

Constantin Pecqueur participated in the Revolution of 1848 and influenced Karl Marx.

Charles Constantin Pecqueur was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in the Department du Nord; his town of birth is variously given as Arleux or Douai.

Constantin Pecqueur contributed to Le Globe and other Saint-Simonian papers, but left the Saint-Simonian school in 1832, dissatisfied with the religious direction in which Prosper Enfantin was taking it.

Constantin Pecqueur wrote a biography of Fourier in 1835 and contributed to various Fourierist journals.

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Constantin Pecqueur remained close to some of his friends from the Saint-Simonian and Fourierist schools, such as Pierre Leroux and Victor Considerant.

In contrast to these theorists, Constantin Pecqueur was one of the earliest French socialists to advocate collective ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange.

Constantin Pecqueur is sometimes called the 'father of French collectivist socialism.

Constantin Pecqueur's writings included Interet du commerce et de l'industrie, Ameliorations materielles, La reforme electorale, Theories nouvelles d'economie sociale et politique, De la paix, de son principe et de sa realisation, Des armees dans leurs rapports avec l'industrie and La Republique de Dieu .

In contrast to many of his utopian socialist contemporaries, and again anticipating Marx' view, Constantin Pecqueur did not see the development of industrial production as predominantly negative.

Constantin Pecqueur welcomed the greater productive capacity of industry but thought that capitalist relations of ownership prevented the full productive potential of industrial technology from being realised.

In 1839, Constantin Pecqueur was commissioned by the French government to make a study of the Belgian railway system, which was more advanced than that of France.

In 1844, Constantin Pecqueur became a regular contributor to the leading democratic newspaper, La Reforme, edited by the left-wing republican Alexandre Ledru-Rollin.

Constantin Pecqueur was nominated to the position of assistant director of the Bibliotheque Nationale.

Constantin Pecqueur maintained contact with republican communists like Jean-Jacques Pillot.

In turn, Constantin Pecqueur accused Proudhon of plagiarising Fourier's ideas; in particular, he charged that Proudhon's project of a 'People's Bank' of mutual exchange was an idea taken from Fourier.

Constantin Pecqueur was notable for his efforts on behalf of international understanding.

At a time when French socialism and republicanism were commonly associated with nationalism, Constantin Pecqueur was a professed internationalist who believed that the workers of different countries had common interests, and that conflicts between nations should be solved not by war but by means of international organs of mediation.

Constantin Pecqueur proposed an international federation of all nations, anticipating the idea of a United Nations.

Constantin Pecqueur was involved in various pacifist associations in the 1870s and '80s.

Constantin Pecqueur remained a member of the National Assembly until 1852, but after the coup d'etat of Louis Bonaparte he largely withdrew from political activity.